B. Papp szerk.: Studia Botanica Hungarica 36. 2005 (Budapest, 2005)

Medzihradszky, Zsófia: Holocene vegetation history and human activity in the Kis-Balaton area, Western Hungary

several settlements of the Lengyel culture have been excavated. During this period small peaks of secondary indicator taxa, Artemisia, Chenopodiaceae, Plantago lanceolata and Compositae are visible. The surroundings of the coring point appear to be unsettled in the Late Copper Age (2nd half of the 4th millennium), only one locality with sporadic fragments of pottery is known. In the pollen diagram the lack of cereals and small increase of trees is observed. In the LPAZ IV, during the Early and Middle Bronze Age cereals and ruderals (Artemisia, Chenopodiaceae) are present. The forests are opened. The palynological diversity increases at the end of the LPAZ II and at the beginning of LPAZ III, later in the LPAZ IV, which corresponds with the settlement intensity. The PCA analysis shows a very well marked change at 250-234 cm, about 6,900 BC (Fig. 11). DISCUSSION Our pollen profiles represent the Holocene vegetation history of the Kis-Balaton area from its beginning until the middle of the 2nd millennium. Between Fig. 11. First principal component (a) and rarefaction analysis (b) of the Holocene sequence of Főnyed.